{"id":"USN-2712-1","summary":"thunderbird vulnerabilities","details":"Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, and Byron Campen discovered multiple memory\nsafety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a\nspecially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to\ncause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code\nwith the privileges ofthe user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4473)\n\nRonald Crane reported 3 security issues. If a user were tricked in to\nopening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially\nexploit these, in combination with another security vulnerability, to\ncause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary\ncode with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4487,\nCVE-2015-4488, CVE-2015-4489)\n\nGustavo Grieco discovered a heap overflow in gdk-pixbuf. If a user were\ntricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could\npotentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application\ncrash or execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking\nThunderbird. (CVE-2015-4491)\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:40:55Z","published":"2015-08-25T10:02:34Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4473","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4487","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4488","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4489","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4491"],"upstream":["CVE-2015-4473","CVE-2015-4487","CVE-2015-4488","CVE-2015-4489","CVE-2015-4491","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4473","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4487","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4488","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4489","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4491"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2712-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4473"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4487"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4488"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4489"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4491"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"thunderbird","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/thunderbird@1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"}]}],"versions":["1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu1","1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu2","1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1","1:24.1.1+build1-0ubuntu1","1:24.2.0+build1-0ubuntu1","1:24.4.0+build1-0ubuntu1","1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:31.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:31.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:31.1.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:31.2.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:31.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:31.4.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:31.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:31.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:31.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","1:31.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","binary_name":"thunderbird"},{"binary_version":"1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","binary_name":"thunderbird-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","binary_name":"thunderbird-globalmenu"},{"binary_version":"1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","binary_name":"thunderbird-gnome-support"},{"binary_version":"1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","binary_name":"thunderbird-mozsymbols"},{"binary_version":"1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","binary_name":"thunderbird-testsuite"},{"binary_version":"1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","binary_name":"xul-ext-calendar-timezones"},{"binary_version":"1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","binary_name":"xul-ext-gdata-provider"},{"binary_version":"1:38.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","binary_name":"xul-ext-lightning"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2015-4473","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]},{"id":"CVE-2015-4487","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]},{"id":"CVE-2015-4488","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]},{"id":"CVE-2015-4489","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]},{"id":"CVE-2015-4491","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2712-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}